Executive Order 492

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Executive Order 492 (1906)
by President of the United States

Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to January 1, 1907614337

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Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt Wednesday, August 8, 1906

614337Executive Order 492 — Extending Time Limit for Completion of Work of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission to January 1, 19076143371906President of the United States

By authority of the sixteenth section of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1901, entitled "An act to carry into effect the stipulations of article 7 of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the 10th day of December, 1898," the period of two years from the date of the approval of said act (during which the powers and jurisdiction granted to the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission duly appointed under the first section of said act of Congress to examine and adjudicate all claims of citizens of the United States against Spain which the United States agreed to adjudicate and settle by the seventh article of said treaty were, according to said act, to be in force and continue) is hereby extended to January 1, 1907, and for no longer time, it being the judgment of the President that such extension is necessary to enable the Commission to wind up its work.